The real advantage a HR department brings is when it is time to get rid of an employee. The HR department has the sort of people who know how to jump through all the government hoops to unload an employee. This raises another question: How can we expect to have employment if we are going to treat employers as second class citizens. An employee can leave a job for any reason at all, but an employer has to jump through a hundred and one hoops to let an employee go.